<p>This study of the Byzantine philosopher George Gemistos Plethon includes the first complete translation of his treatise, On the Differences of Aristotle from Plato, and summarizes all his other works. Woodhouse emphasizes Plethon's controversy with George Scholarios on the respective merits of Plato and Aristotle and his important impact on the Italian humanists during the Council of Union at Ferrara and Florence in 1438-9. Though Plethon's ambition to create a new religion based on Neoplatonism was never realized, his ideas had a significant influence on the western Renaissance.</p>

George Gemistos Plethon: The Last of the Hellenes

Politics & Social Sciences

Woodhouse, C.M.

Philosophy

Oxford University Press

Guerrilla fighter, undercover agent, diplomat, Director of Chatham House, chief editor of Penguin Books, MP for Oxford, industrialist and author, C. M. Woodhouse has ventured much. A colonel by the age of twenty-seven, he spent the war years with the Greek Resistance and vividly describes the hazards of working with rival guerrilla groups as well as the rigours of partisan warfare in the mountains. Read the book for more. Black & white photos.

Something ventured

GRANADA

On 21 April 1967 a group of Colonels headed by George Papadopoulos seized power in Greece. Ostensibly their action was justified by the danger of a Communist conspiracy. Yet in spite of many treason trials, not a single person was ever convicted of any action or plot prior to the coup; the Colonels merely revealed themselves as naive megalomaniacs with a self-imposed mission to reform Greece by force. The immediate excuse for toppling the government of the day was the fear that the General Election which was about to be held would lead to grave disorder and even revolution. The tense atmosphere was aggravated by controversies over Cyprus, over the royal family, over the killing of a left-wing Deputy, over allegations of electoral fraud, and much else; but above all by the ingrained habit of conspiracy among Army officers of different political persuasions. Only the final collapse of the dictatorship in 1974, and the return to power of Constantine Karamanlis, restored the hope that Greece could develop into a Stable democracy, C M Woodhouse sensitively chronicles the last days of civilian rule, the dissension and confusion which made the coup inevitable and the aftermath of the Colonels' rule and its implications for Greece today - He also analyses international reactions, which were mostly neutral at the official level, in contrast to the widespread hostility of public opinion. His account of betrayal and opportunism illuminates a still too little understood episode of contemporary European history.

The rise and fall of the Greek colonels

As commander of the Allied Military Mission to the Greek guerrillas in German-occupied Greece, Colonel Woodhouse held an uneasy balance between the Communists and the government. He was in a prime position to write the history of the Greek civil war, and his account of this turning point in Communist fortunes in Europe has achieved the status of a classic.

The struggle for Greece, 1941-1949

History

Europe

Hart-Davis, MacGibbon

A Short History of Greece: From Early Times to 1964

<p>Hardcover with dust jacket. VG/VG. Previous owners' names.</p>

Heurtley, W. A.

Darby, H. C.

Crawley, C. W.

Cambridge University Press

The Rise and Fall of the Greek Colonels

Olympic Marketing Corp

Modern Greece: A short history (Faber paperbacks)

FABER

Modern Greece: A short history

Faber and Faber

Modern Greece: A Short History

Literature & Fiction

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